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Poetry News:

— A Genius Whom the War Made and Killed; Rupert Brooke’s Death at the Front Illustrates the Paradox of the Effect on Literature of War, Which Ended His Career and Made Him Immortal By Joyce Kilmer. —

— What do you think are the most important elements of writing poetry? —

— Four of the most [...]

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Poetry News:

— a bookshelf called the Cave, which allows readers to curl up in a form-fitting seat, surrounded by their beloved books —

— He removed WB Yeats’ tonsils, and was made infamous by Ulysses —

— Best summer reads: poetry —

— Zemeckis’ ‘Beowulf’ to bow in IMAX —

— Summer Reading: The poetry of Anna Akhmatova [...]

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Poetry News:

— A book with no words wins major literary award in Australia —

— Ancient coffin with scenes from Homer’s poems unearthed —

— it can pass for basic Olden-speak, the lingua franca of so many fantasy novels these days —

— Fran Brearton finds emotional power in Dear Ghosts, a timely collection of poems by Tess [...]

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Poetry News:

The survival of poetry, especially if written before the invention of print, has often been a matter of luck or accident —

Beowulf on Ice —

On poetry, enchantment, and the curse of the gladiators —

Very short doesn’t mean shallow —

The vigorous, meandering notebooks of Robert Frost —

Scribbles to poetry — [...]

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Poetry News:

I like to see a poet wearin’ diamonds! —

“At the Window” By Linda Gregerson —

Hodson Gift to JHU Press Will Fund ‘The Complete Prose of T.S. Eliot’ —

Today’s writers still seek, find new insight into Bard —

Sam Tanenhaus, editor of the Book Review, is responding to reader questions this week [...]

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Politically Aware ‘Beowulfs’ Miss an Ancient Delight: Terror (bug me not)

Mariela Griffor begins a new chapter with Marick Press

Welsh poet invented an ‘S’ in his initials

Authors Take a New Approach to Audio Books: Do It Yourself (bug me not)

Half a century on, Ferlinghetti, now 87, remains a formidable and influential figure on the literary and [...]

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Icelandic saga Beowulf and Grendel pits good against evil
Poet laureate Rita Dove strives to take the fear out of poetry
The Columbia Review’s past is, indeed, star-studded
18th Lambda Lit. Awards finalists announced
The other tragic woman in the life of Ted Hughes

Tags: Assia Wevill, Beowulf, Lambda Literary Awards, Poetry, Poetry News, poets, Rita Dove, Robert Burns, The [...]

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My friend Larry has died. He made beautiful bird calls and was one of the best storytellers I have ever heard. His funeral is today.

why…another biography of Anna Akhmatova, one of great poets of the 20th century, is needed
A poet’s legacy cut short
Al Alvarez: The Poet Laureate of Poker
Brother Wolf takes an epic poem [...]

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Burns Night
Burns: the original punk rock people’s poet
Hypergraphia for Poetry in an Epileptic Patient
Turkey: Court drops case against novelist Orhan Pamuk
Beowulf & Grendel
Asahi Haikuist Network

I talked on the phone to my friend Chris in Detroit and I asked her how everything was going up there with the whole we’re-having-the-Superbowl-in-Detroit thing. I could hear her rolling [...]

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